In 2014, for the first time, mobile accounted for a double-digit share of online advertising. In Europe 11.8% of display and 16.3% of search revenue is generated through mobile. By the end of 2015, IHS expects each format to increase to a 25.0% share, in their respective sectors.

The four leading US theatrical circuits Regal Entertainment, AMC, Cinemark and Carmike, have moved to boycott the release of Netflix title and Oscar hopeful Beasts of No Nation because its release will debut side by side with the online streaming platform later in 2015.

In 2014, according to IHS analysis Swiss consumers purchased a combined 8.6 million DVD and Blu-ray Discs, an overall decline of 18.5% over 2013. At 6.4 million unit sales, consumption for the DVD format decreased by 21.0%, with Blu-ray Disc (BD) falling into a first year of solidified decline down 10.2% - from 2.4 million units in 2013 down to 2.2 million units in 2014.

Cinema worldwide continues to evolve in numerous directions. Digital cinema is now the format of choice bringing with it major changes in content distribution, packaging, and production methods. If you want to succeed in this increasingly complex business, you’ll need a trusted source of comprehensive market intelligence.

The Home Entertainment Key Performance Indicators (KPI) is a premium service available to IHS clients who subscribe to all TV Intelligence, Video Intelligence and Broadband Media Intelligence services. The KPI measure key metrics for 14 distribution channels across 38 individual countries and eight regional totals, offering clients the most complete picture of paid-for home entertainment market performance available.

Having disrupted the market for PND's with crowd-sourced data and convenient modern user experiences, smartphones are starting to create new location-based services that go far beyond traditional PND and automotive markets. Increasingly, LBS is creating new types of analytics data, new business models for advertising, mobile games, and mcommerce, as well as for traditional navigation. Portable and LBS Intelligence analyzes these innovations in mobile LBS that will continue to transform the PND and the whole mobile industry.

With a focus on the economics of mobile content and services, Mobile Media Intelligence, provides must have analysis of the business models that are transforming the digital world, including apps, app stores, messaging, games, music and video. This includes the value-added service strategies of operators and smartphone makers, plus over-the-top start-ups and established media companies. The service offers both global trends and market data for 48 countries.

The TV Media Intelligence Service leverages long-standing relationships with operators in all of the 70+ markets that we cover, resulting in the only truly comprehensive source of television market intelligence available anywhere in the world.

TV Channel Intelligence provides a deep-dive analysis into the reach, distribution and revenue of the pay and free television channels owned by the world's major multichannel operators. This is the first comprehensive Intelligence service able to track, model and forecast the multichannel TV business outside the United States.

TV Programming Intelligence delivers unique insight into a market worth more than $103 billion in 2015. The service values investments on originated, acquired and sports programming by free-to-air and pay TV broadcasters.

The Video Titles Database is a proprietary database containing initial video results for all feature films making their video debut in the US market during the period from 1996 to date. It offers estimates of first cycle video performance, including net shipments and studio revenue in the quarter of first release, detailed by format and pipeline.

The global d-cinema penetration of the total screen footprint now stands at 89.8 per cent to reach 127,688 screens, which marked a 14.7 per cent increase from the revised total of 111,328 at end 2013, according to IHS Cinema Intelligence. Approximately 16,360 d-screen units were converted in 2014, of which 11,902 were 3D screens or 72.3 per cent of all screens. The global screen total does not include e-cinema screens in India, which takes the global digital screen conversion rate to 93.4%.

Compared to revenue growth experienced in Q3 as a result of the Korean Thanksgiving holiday, several major publishers suffered a Q4 decline due to a lack of games/updates and fewer promotions for incumbent PC titles.

Mobile World Congress 2015 brought with it the usual announcements of flagship devices from companies like HTC and Samsung. Other companies, like Huawei, focused their attention on the growing wearables segment and introduced smartwatches and fitness trackers in a variety of form factors. In addition to new product announcements, the event was also a showcase of how these new devices interact with other connected devices and services to create a multi-device user experience.

Infonetics Research, now part of IHS, today reported that Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) channel shipments rose to record levels in 2014 as cable operators continue to improve their networks to offer services to customers at ever-higher speeds.

Ben Keen is responsible for directing all research on consumer electronics, professional video technology, media, telecommunications and displays within the Technology division of IHS. He leads a team of over 150 expert analysts around the world.

Dan oversees the strategic development of the company's global output on the business and economics of broadband, the digital distribution of ebooks, movies, music, TV and user-generated content, and the relationship between content and consumer technology.

Daniel Knapp, director of advertising research, is a recognized expert on advertising industry trends and strategies, media consumption patterns and online privacy. At IHS, Daniel manages teams in London and Shanghai responsible for forecasting and analyzing global advertising markets and key companies across all media.

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